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polars-bio

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Blazing fast genomic operations on large Python dataframes

Installation

To install this package, run one of the following:

Conda
$conda install bioconda::polars-bio

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Description

polars-bio is a Python library for genomics built on top of Polars, Apache Arrow and Apache DataFusion. It provides a DataFrame API for genomics data and is designed to be fast, memory efficient and easy to use.

Key features: - Popular genomic interval operations with a DataFrame API - SQL-powered querying of bioinformatics data - Native parallel engine powered by Apache DataFusion - Out-of-core / streaming processing - Reading from cloud storage - Zero-copy data exchange with Apache Arrow - Support for VCF, BAM, CRAM, SAM, FASTQ, FASTA, BED, GFF, GTF and BigWig/BigBed

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Summary

Blazing fast genomic operations on large Python dataframes

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026 at 07:25

License

Apache-2.0

Supported Platforms

macOS-arm64
linux-64
macOS-64